In reply to my previous objection directed against this part of his work, Montgomery acknowledges the validity of the criticism so far as it relates to the metaphase, but denies the application to the other phases, particularly to the anaphase. He alleges in support of his position that the introduction of an unusual condition, the “synapsis,” makes it impossible to correlate strictly the stages of the germ-cells with those of ordinary divisions. Upon this point I must again disagree with him. It is impossible for any known modification of the prophase to change the essential character of the anaphase, so as to make it precede instead of follow the metaphase. This stage marks the movements of the chromosomes from the equatorial plate to the poles, and terminates when they are massed around the centrosomes. How can the “synapsis” in the least affect the duration or character of this process? It is apparent enough, I think, that Montgomery’s subphases of the “anaphase” do not belong to this portion of the mitotic cycle at all, but are really portions of the telophase of the spermatogonia and prophase of the first spermatocyte. Further, it may be noted that, even were these subphases properly included in the anaphase, they would belong to the spermatogonia and not to the spermatocytes. Montgomery himself seems to be rather uncertain of the position of his “anaphase.” In the first paper, upon _Euchistus_ (=12=), it was put down as the anaphase of the first spermatocyte; in his later paper (=14=), upon _Peripatus_, it is recorded as the anaphase of the spermatogonia. Still more confusing is his use of the “telophases,” for in the article upon _Peripatus_ (=14=) it is, in the “Contents,” placed as a substage of the spermatogonial anaphase, and in the body of the work, page 307, as the telophase of the spermatocyte! Neither the anaphase nor the telophase can, by any possible construction of their proper meanings, be made to apply to the “growth period” of the germ cycle, as Montgomery insists; they are the last stages of the “division period,” in reality. The prophase of the first spermatocyte is the initial stage in the constructive process marking the growth period.